English

Adjective

olden ‎(not comparable)

1. From or relating to a previous era.
   • Cole Porter, Anything Goes

     In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now heaven knows, anything goes.

2. Old; ancient.
   • 1857, Martha Griffith Browne, Autobiography of a Female Slave (page 347)

     We […] told over the story of past sufferings, and renewed olden vows of devotion.

Etymology 2

From old +‎ -en.

Verb

olden ‎(third-person singular simple present oldens, present participle oldening, simple past and past participle oldened)

1. (intransitive) To grow old; age; assume an older appearance or character; become affected by age.

Related terms

• eld

Anagrams

• loden

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

olden m ‎(definite singular oldenen, indefinite plural oldener, definite plural oldenene)

1. (archaic) mast (tree fruit, nut)